The Way to Tea: Your Adventure Guide to San Francisco Tea Culture - Hardcover

Sharing tea has for hundreds of years taken on a variety of expressions by different cultures, but there are also common threads woven into every tea culture. These "threads" include community, ritual, art, poetry, sanctuary, intimacy, and vitality. In my journey through San Francisco tea culture, I discovered that the Bay Area is uniquely situated at the heart of a newly emerging American tea culture, and that we have perhaps the highest concentration of keenly and divergently focused tea professionals in the world right here. In no other place and at no other time could such an alchemy of cultures and traditions merge into such a diverse, fun and intensely inspiring social phenomenon. I felt it was an event worthy of recording and celebrating. The Way to Tea is a creative tribute to and appraisal of an exhilarating journey through the labyrinth of San Francisco tea culture.

You are invited to the world's most eclectic tea party. You can bring a hat, a fan, a bird, a book, or a pair of white gloves. The new American tea culture has arrived, and the San Francisco Bay Area is at its core. If you want to learn more about tea culture traditions from around the world, find a wide variety of fabulous tea lounges, tearooms, tea shops and tea experts in the Bay Area, The Way to Tea is your guide.